At next month’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Crux Cigars’ flagship Limitada Series will get two new sizes. The first is Limitada RedLine, a 6 x 50 box-pressed toro priced at $11.99. The other is Limitada Gunner, a 5 3/8 x 46 box-pressed corona gorda priced at $9.99. Both sizes are ...
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If you’ve ever wanted a cigar to go along with your new motorcycle, Debonaire House has a solution heading to dealers. The company has launched the Indian Motorcycle Cigars Dealership program, which will see the company offer four cigars to Indian Motorcycle dealers around the country. Those cigars are part ...
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While it may not be the first thing that comes to mind when the word Cohiba is mentioned, the notion of expensive generally comes to mind, and that regardless whether we’re talking the Cuban or non-Cuban version. In the case of the latter, General Cigar Co. has been working to grow the ...
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The Rocky Patel Olde World Reserve is due to be back on retail shelves across the country before long, as the company has announced it will return at next month’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show before heading to retailers later in the summer.. Both the Olde World Reserve Corojo and Olde ...
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Over the weekend, the Rhode Island legislature and governor hammered out the final version of the state’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year, with a proposed increase to the state’s cigar tax cap left on the cutting room floor. An initial proposal by the governor would have raised the cap ...
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Most cigarmakers would prefer not to make 6 x 60 cigars save for one reason: they sell. Add Crowned Heads to that list. At next month’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, the company will add the Luminosa Gigantes LE 2018, a 6 x 60 version of its Connecticut line. “The ...
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A proposal to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21-years-old in Monroe County, N.Y. has been defeated, as the county legislatures’s Agenda/Charter Committee defeated it by a 3-2 vote on Monday night that was also split down party lines. The bill was introduced last week by Legislator LaShay ...
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What’s old is new again. The original LH Cigars Claro blend is returning. Nick Syris, LH Cigars founder, says that he is bringing back the original version of its Claro blend, which is stronger than the current one its selling. That blend uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper over a Nicaraguan ...
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PDR Cigars has announced that Richie “Riot” Otero has been promoted to be the company’s new director of sales, effective immediately. Otero has been the company’s sales representative for the Florida territory since October 2017, though he began traveling across the country in support of the brand and other sales ...
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After revealing yesterday that its Limitada line will be getting two new additions, Crux Cigars has announced that it will add a new extension to its Epicure line. The Crux Epicure Galant is a three-size, regular production line that uses a Mexican San Andrés maduro wrapper, which marks the first ...
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In a small courtroom in a non-descript building in the suburbia that is Plano, Texas, the cigar industry made its case once again that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has gone too far. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kimberly Priest Johnson heard oral arguments in En Fuego Tobacco Shop et al. ...
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Joya de Nicaragua has announced that its first cigar—Clásico—is returning to the U.S. market, exclusively available at Casa de Montecristo and JR Cigar locations. Clásico was introduced 50 years ago and the company says it is keeping the original blend, now with slightly updated packaging. “Clásico goes back to America ...
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Shanda Lee’s tenure as the director of marketing for Gurkha Cigar Group Inc. did not last long. The company announced that Lee is no longer with Gurkha; she took the job in March of this year. “Shanda Lee is very knowledgeable in her field and we were looking forward to ...
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In 2011, Emilio Cigars released a Nicaraguan puro produced at the My Fathers Cigars S.A. factory named Grimalkin, after an archaic term for an old, gray, female cat. Unfortunately, that moniker did not last long, as the line was renamed in 2012 after the brand’s face, Gary Griffith, acknowledged that both the name and design ...
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The Boyne City Commission unanimously passed a resolution at its meeting on Tuesday that bans smoking in all city parks after hearing complaints from residents about littered cigarette butts and other tobacco-related debris. Because the commission passed a resolution and not an ordinance, there are no fines for violators, though ...
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Black Works Studio will add to its growing families of Hymenoptera-themed releases. That’s the name of the scientific order that includes wasps, bees, hornets and ants for those without a biology degree. The latest will be Yellow Jacket, a 4 1/2 x 46 petit corona, that shows off some of the ...
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The Phoenix, Ariz. suburb of Fountain Hills has passed an ordinance banning smoking and the use of e-cigarettes and vaping devices in all of its parks, trails and recreation areas. The ordinance also contained an emergency clause, which means that the ban went into effect upon passage. Violators of the ...
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The first of a trio of legendary cigars from Davidoff set to be rereleased in 2018 has arrived in stores. That cigar is the AVO 22, a 5 7/8 perfecto, that was originally released in 2002. The cigar was created because the brand’s founder, Avo Uvezian, had a fascination with ...
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The first new, non-flavored cigar from Miami Cigar & Co. in two years is scheduled to ship in August. That cigar is the Nestor Miranda Collection 75th Anniversary, which pays tribute not to the brand’s 75th anniversary—its is only 22-years-old—but rather, the company’s founder, who turned 75 this past Valentine’s ...
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The Wise Man Maduro is getting its thinnest size to date. Foundation Cigar Co. has announced that it will debut The Wise Man Maduro Lancero, a 7 1/2 x 40 soft-pressed lancero version of The Wise Man Maduro blend, which was released last year. It uses a Mexican San Andrés ...
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